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The Amherst news-times. (Amherst, Ohio), 1942-11-26

The Amherst news-times. (Amherst, Ohio), 1942-11-26 page 1

Amherst News- I HE VOL. XXIV, NUMBER 48 AMHERST, OHIO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1942 SANDSTONE CENTER OF THE WORLD .1 1MES ,) IS 0 TV Local Boys Tough Too, Said Soldier Pvt. Noble Bierman found the boys back home just as tough as they ever were when he was home on weekend pass three weeks ago. The Sunday afternoon he got into a football game with his friends and when he got back to camp the next day he had to go into the hospital for a ten-day rest. The fellows got the best of him more or less. Pvt. Bierman enlisted in the army last June and signed up with the Coastal Artillery unit. He is still in the coastal artillery but is doing radio work. H e has received his schooling at Washington, D, C, and is expecting a trans fer any day now. He is also in line for a promo tion to corporal technician. Since being in Washington he has been fortunate in being able to have five weekend passes. His training has consisted mostly of all book work and lectures since he has been in the army. His first camp was Fort Ben jamin Harrison, from there he was transferred to Fort Eustis and then on to Washington. At Washington the fellows are liv ing in a hotel where they pay $3 a week for rent aniMhey fut t restaurants. About a month ago Pvt. Bierman and his roommates were flooded out of their living quarters which was formerly oc cupied by a plumber's shop. The flood hit the place and the sold iers were forced out. They pre fer the hotel of their old habitat. The Amherst lad said the soldiers in Washington don't relish the idea of saluting the WAACS and WAVES. Everytime they see them coining down the street the soldiers duck into the nearest store in order to avoid saluting them. Pvt. Bierman enjoys reading the soldier's news in the paper, he wrote home. When he receives his transfer his new address will appear in the paper. Fort Riley Boys Have Party Fun m Monday's mail brought the editor a letter from Hugh McGarvey, former reporter of the Amherst News-Times. Hugh's in the army now stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas and his letter tells us that army life with him is okay. You will enjoy his letter so here it is: "Hello George: "Finally found time to drop you a few lines. Maybe it is for the better that the writing was postponed because I can pound this out on a typewriter now and you will be able to read it. "It seems good to be back at a typewriter again in the hurly-burly confusion of an office. The whole company is administered through the orderly room office so you can see we are right in the thick of everything. It is a lot like working on a newspaperin-so-far as every day being different.The days here are full they have to be in order to teach us as much as possible about army life in 11 weeks but occasionally there is a break and they are appreciated. After a particularly tough week when we fired for record on the rifle range, the company had a beer party. It started out right at supper time with a regular old fashioned dutch supper and following the meal, the piano was dragged into the mess hall and all the talent in the company was utilized to fill out program. iV,' The Party r ? ' "Our only really big social af fair tlwugh,, was held, jait Bun day. Then the company was per mltted to Invite 25 girls to Sun A u J On land the sea and in the air Amherst Soldiers and Sailors are FigMisag for Liberty We wish our readers to know that in the future we will print no more addresses of soldiers or sailors abroad. Persons wanting addresses of these service men who are abroad may obtain those that we have by coming to the office. They will not be given over the phone. Government censorship has ruled this. day dinner. The girls were cho sen by the USO clubs in surrounding towns. It is too bad you weren't here with your camera, George, for you sure would have had a field day. "Now out of 250 soldiers, you wouldn't think it would be hard to find 25 to escort these girls to dinner, would you? No one else did either, in fact the officers were afraid it would be the other way around so they decided that the fellows who had the 25 highest scores on the range would be rewarded. "But it so happened that several of the fellows were in the older age group, were happily married, didn't dance or had some other excuse. The charge of quarters almost had to threaten some of the boys before he got his list complete. Then they started to get nervous. Some of the boys ."'ere all dressed in their Sunday best for breakfast and just paced around all morning. (I still can't get up early they had to dump my bed over to get me up). Given Numbers "Here Is how it worked. we were all 'given" numbers'. As the girls were unloaded from the trucks, they were given numbers and taken to the day room where we were waiting. The corresponding numbers were then partners. It was really strange at first but it didn't take long for everyone to get acquainted. There was one set of lively twins that no one ever did keep identified very long. The girls ate dinner, chicken and all the trimmings in regular army, style and waited on them selves too. They really got a great kick out of it. Following the dinner, we joined with the other companies in the main recreation hall for dancing. There was also facilities for roller skat ing for those who wished to skate. Then you should have seen the fellows, who were pre- viously too bashful, come out of hiding. Dust Storm "A lot of the fellows took pic- tures and I am enclosing one to.of cereal (the glass of milk had show you the twins. The only I to be used for the cereal too) for drawback to the whole day was;sixty cents. Kurth was happy that we had a Kansas dust storm, ; that he didn't have to stay too the wind being so strong at times that you couldn't walk against it. "Before I forget, George, I sure like" the column and stories about the boys in service every week. It is a swell way to keep track of them. Carl Einwachter is out here with me and we really pore over the News-Times every Saturday. Everybody back home has been swell about writing. Haven't had time to answer all of them and also haven't written to everyone I promised but wish you would tell them that It won't be too long before I get more time. We have only four more , fee, Ark. "It seems great to be weeks of the basic training period home even though army life is left. great," said Sgt. Thomas. He will "Well, George, will sign off return to camp Nov. 29. now as it is almost time for bed-1 Expected home soon are Corp. check. Hope to see you soon. ; Conrad Einwachter of Camp HUGH" Bowie, Texas and Pvt. Ralph Hugh's address is Pvt. Hugh J. 1 Haas of Mississippi. Corp. Ein-McGarvey, Co. 'B, 28th Trg. Bn., ' wachter is expected home Friday M.P.R.T.C., Fort Riley, Kansas, I of this week. Barracks 2602. Pvt. Harold R. Telzerow has been transferred from New Jersey to Colorado. His change of address ls: Pvt. Harold R. Telzerow, 771 SP, Buckley Field, Col. Pvt. Stanley Gambash was home from Fort Leonard Wood for several days last week, n John, H. Lenz has a change of address. He was transferred to the. Eyerglades Hgtql, Room ,1308, Miami, Florida where he is attending one of the navy schools. Was Inducted On Birthday The only thing he doesn't get I enough of in the army is choco- I late cake and cream, pies, Pvt. pies, Norman Kurth told us last week when he was home on a 72-hour leave. So to make up for it while he was home he had all the cake he could eat and his mother gnd aunts saw to it that his pie was ready for him whenever he wanted it. ' i Pvt. Kurth has been in the army for two months now having been inducted on his 21st birthday. He is receiving his basic training at Atlantic City, N. J. in the air corps division of the army. His biggest thrill since being in the army came when he was able to handle the machine gun. "I've often won- ; dered how one of those things worked after seeing so many in I motion pictures, now I know," j said the Amherst boy. We asked ' him if he got a kick out of handling the good old army rifle, he said, "There were plenty of us who got the "kick" out of them especially if we didn't hold them just right against our shoulders." Living conditions for the boys up in New Jersey are fine. The fellows are staying in a hotel. All the hotels in Atlantic have i bethi turned over for army use. Three to seven boys stay In a room. A chest of drawers for clothing is in each room and when seven fellows are in one room they have quite a time trying to keep their clothing all in one chest. That's their worst trouble that and washing. "After two months of it, I still don't have it down pat," said Pvt. Kurth. There were quite a few Amherst fellows at New Jersey when Kurth left. He had met up with Frank Szabados, Harold Telze-row, Paul Meitzke, John Nagy, Henry Miller and Glenn Slumska. Several of these boys have been transferred since that time. Kurth, too, expected a transfer on his return. His trip to and from the camp was made by train and learned that expenses for soldiers on the train are high. The hometown lad and another fellow from Cleveland had breakfast, fruit iuiee one 8lass o milk and a dish lon8 on the train. I He left town a week ago Tues- i aay tor wew Jersey. He nas been j transferred since then to South j Dakota, It was learned today. His ! Present address is: Pvt. Norman Kurth, 803rd T. S. S. (sp), Sioux I Falls. s- D- ne ls the son of Mr. and Mrs Henry Kurth, Park-av. BRIEF NOTES ABOUT crj! niFRs Mr AimRS Staff Sgt. Halph Thomas arrived home last week for a ten-day furlough from Camp Chaf- Pvt. George Jaeger and Pvt. Robert Kricg were home for a few days recently. Pvt. Clarence Kurth has been confined in the Station Hospital, Fort Jackson, S. C. for the past 4 weeks. His address is 134th Station Hospital, Ward 39. Pvt. Edward Morrison was home from New Jersey over the weekend. I ' ft- More Service : Men Newt mi W on page 4 Local Pictures Limited By WPA I ,. - u , . , . ,, I The use of photographs in the I News-Times will need to be cut i the future unless the War Production Board relents in its order limiting the amount of film ;hat can be bought. October 1st manufacturers were 1 limited to 50 percent of film sold. and lately all manufactur- trs' stocks were comPletelv fr- en' , "f t this rpcrrirnun uiiiiiu riiiiiiiniP iiniii ,otu uru u fi i December 18th. Whether film would be released then, or would ; be further restricted, could not : . ...v.. De learned. , Before a newspaper photograph i can De maae iwo pieces oi mm i names are t0 be added soon which an, Ueralcl Van Keuren and Ed-are necessary. The first piece is j wjl, bring tne tolai to 325. ward Summerlee were made sec-used to take the original photo- j Approximately 223 of these ond lieutenants, Robert Flech-graph. This picture is made in ! are indUctees and the re- ner' staI sergeant, Bob McCann, the same manner as an ordinary snapshot. After the pnotograph is made the second piece of film is necessary. That is used in making the second, or "process" negative. Since both the ordinary film and the "process" film is frozen the order effects not only those taking pictures, but also engravers who cannot make the news paper cuts without "process" film. j At present The News-Times has a very limited stock of each type 0f fnm on hand. Until the WPA permits the purchase of more the number of local pictures which we will be able to use must be restricted, and finally eliminated altogether unless new supplies ! can be secured. Additional Gas Heaters Barred a ,nf u7 , t. WoJ army captain and doctor,-Capt. ! The first nurses to join the ser-A recent ruling of the War ' a navv lieuten- vice left town in October and Production Board prohibiting the j Sphopffm n navv they are now' members of the connection of radiant heaters,; rlrnnlntinif honlnrB nnH nthnr anc I circulating heaters, and other gas) fired supplemental h e a 1 1 n g 1 equipment to the gas lines after November 30 was announced today by Mr. C. F. Bronson, dis trict manager of The Ohio Fuel: Gas Company. 1 For some months, the installa- tion of gas fired central heating I plants has been prohibited as well as the installation of small hcaters required to furnish a majority of the heating used in a residence or business location. The new order offers further restrictions on small space heaters, becoming effective on and after November 30. The Company points out that the order places responsibility for adhering to the ruling upon the customer using the gas, the party connecting the appliance to the gas lines and the utility which renders the gas service. One or all of those involved in a violation are subject to the penalties provided by law. Interpreting the War Production Board's most recent order on these changes, the following are the limitations on connecting supplemental gas heating appliances to the Company's lines on and after November 30: The new limitations do not affect the use of gas fired equipment already connected to the lines as long as it remains Installed at the same address. No additional gas-fired space heating equipment such as radiant heaters, conversion burners, etc. may be connected to the lines. This includes new or used equipment which may be bought or ls then owned but not connected.No gas fired space heating equipment may be connected at a new address even though it was connected at an old address and still ls In possession of the same owner. Replacements of gas-fired heating equipment with other gas fir ed heating equipment are per mitted only when equipment ls of the same type, at the same address and that the new Installation is of the same or less capacity as the equipment replaced. Owners of rental property who own gas-fired space heaters connected to the gas lines on the property may permit new ten-nanta to use the equipment as part, of the rented property. If the cental, property;, J, not so quipped, the new tennant Is not I permitted to connect his gas fired I space beaters. Reviewing Amherst's Servicemen In World War II, Land, Air, And Sea Amherst is well represented throughout the world and we're not kidding. We mean of course that we have soldiers, sailors and marines scattered wide in the present conflict. To our knowledge we have men in the Solomon area, others in Ireland, Eng land, Hawaii, India, Alaska and stm 'other po'ints wnich are only esUmated rri i ...u: ,1 u i a n . .n lcu wmii:, anu uiue nun- erected on the townhaU ,awn o Amherst L . . . ... , luwnsuip iiiuii wiiu uie atuvmg 111 ,,. . , TT , 4u4 i- , . x i wiHiu war ii unu nidi iisl la iiul yet compiete. At least ten more iiB nlimhPr of mpn are en- listees. Many of the enlistees staff sergeant and Ed Van Keur-have been in the service since be- en a sergeant. We might mention fore war was declared. that lhe last three bys are not The navy seems to be the choice vet 21 vears old- Ry Hoffner of the majority of the enlisted and Don Dalcy are the latest men accounted for. Over half of Amherstites to leave town for the that number is in the navy. The air corPs- next choice is the air corps. Last since the Selective Service be-January Amherst had its first re- 8an in October, 1940, 223 fellows prcsentatives in the U. S. Marines ' have been inducted from Am-with Leo Redman and Adam hst township. Approximately Drozdowski enlisting. Since then ; 107 f this number are from the the total of local marines has city limits. swelled to 15. William Raab is I In the first group to go were the latest local boy to sign up . Clarence Blackford, Joe Smith, with that outfit. Herbert Schneider, Walter Paukst, SEVERAL OFFICERS ! Louis Hyster, Howard Franks, Amherst has a right to be ' Fred Lucas, and William Franks. proud of her boys in the armed , forces. They have all gone ahead and a number of them have be- come leaders in the various ! branches of the service. Scan- 1 !- .i i:t t i..i Ulllg uvui uiu iiau ui tuiui iui.11 --a who are playing an active part in ; now an aviation cadet in Cali-the war we find that we have a fomia. fhnnlnin Ppu H H Mnvuupll Bn ! TWO NURSES Ted Wiseman Brmv OOClOr, Lil. ICQ Wiseman, army, lieutenant. Lt. Arthur Thomas, 1 and air corps lieutenants, Lts. ! Robert and Jed Hall and Robert III I? II.WfM 1111 3. IJ 11UIIUU r 1 i r UlCU At "1 1 CarS Sunday afternoon funeral scr- vices were held for Mrs. Ella E. iHutton, a life-long resident of Amherst, who died Friday night, Mrs. Hutton, who was 91 years old, died at the home of her son, William Hutton, 160 Harris-st. She was born on the North Ridge-rd, Amherst-twp where she lived all of her life except the past year and a half. She left one son, five grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren, a nephew, E. E. Foster and a niece, Mrs. Jack Barkley, both of Amherst. Rev. F. E. Eastman of the Wakeman Congregational church officiated at the service and burial was held in Crownhill cemetery in charge of the Conrad Zilch funeral home. School Teacher Joins WAAC's The first woman from Amherst township to join the Woman's Auxliary Corps is Mrs. Frances E. Hammct of South Amherst. Mrs. Hammet has resigned her position as teacher in the South Amherst high school to join the WAACS. Her application for enlistment has already been accepted by the Women's Corps and she expects to begin active ser vice about December 1. Her resignation at South Amherst will be effective Nov. 25. She is teaching English, history and girls' physical education and Is also director of the dramatic club. This is her first year on the South Amherst facul ty. She taught at Clearview before her marriage and also Avon during the second semester of last year. Nelson Howe of Henrietta has been appointed to fill her vacancy. He has had several years of teaching experience and during the last semester of the 1941 school year he taught at Avon. . Howe was formerly employed in a Cleveland store where he was engaged In commercial work. At his new position he will teach science and mathematics. ' Roinhardt; Gerald Van Keuren and Edward Summerlee who are 2nd lieutenants in the army air corps. Another Amherst doctor, 2nd Lt. R. J. Mulford will begin duty in another week in the in- fantry. Ensign Irvin Maxwell is an athletic instructor at Corpus Christi, Texas and then there are I a group of Amherst men who are sergeants, corporals and going on down to buck privates and ap- nrnni pp spampn an nninu rnnir "o share to bring the war to an end 0ff hand we can say that the nip rnrn v hppn a,prt n a 1 - . rprlain pvlpnf Rinnp thp Hnll brothers have become lieuten- technical sergeant, Don Franklin, These bys le" January 31, 1941 the second call which took 30 from the Oberlin District. Nick Radosevich was Amherst's first draft volunteer. He left shortlv after the registration. He Army-Nurses Corps. 2nd Lieu ' -'nanls ermaine i.aniu ana .ar- essa Meitzke are both stationed at the stalion Hospital, Camp Campbell, Kentucky. They are I finding army life much to their liking. 1 Subtracting 315 young fellows from the total number of young men residents of town a year or so ago solves the problem of why the town is bare. Soldiers and sailors home on furlough com ment on that fact as soon as they arrive home. They wonder what has happened to the town, it is so bare. And those few who are left are waiting day by day for their numbers to come up. The Oberlin Draft Board re cently announced that the 18 and 19 year old group have received classifications and will be called for physical examinations shortly. That will mean the younger fellows will be going within a month or two. At the present the 3-A men are being reclassified into 1-A. Several married men have been called for their first physical in Oberlin. Should General Hershey's state ment of a month or so be con firmed that no more deferments will be issued to war workers the 3-A men may not have to leave before all single fellows are called. Union Service At Methodist Church The annual community union Thanksgiving service will be held Wednesday evening at 7:30 in the Methodist church. Members of the Congregational, First Evangelical, Evangelical-Reformed and Methodist will combine their Thanksgiving worship at this time. All other people are welcome to attend. Rev. C. C. Vandersall of the First Evangelical church will preach the sermon and his topic ls entitled, "Christian Thanksgiving." Rev. Harold Dlehl will conduct the . service and a sextet from Amherst high school will offer several selections.A community union service will also be held in South Am herst at , the Congregational church the same time. Rev. C E. Schmidt and Rev. E. J. San derson will conduct this service. A speaker from the Oberlin school of Theology will address the South Amherst group. Community, War Fund Drive Over Goal By $732.80 Amherst's Community and War Fund drive went over the top in its recent drive by $732.80 this year as reported by F. J. Berger, financial secretary and secretary of the board. $3732.80 has been collected so far and there are still a few unpaid pledges to be collected. The board asks that these pledges be taken care of as soon as possible. Amherst set its goal this year as $3,000. A house to house canvass by volunteer workers was successful in contacting the majority of residents. Should there be any person in town who was not contacted and who would care to contribute to this worthy cause he may yet do so by leaving his contribution at the Lorain-co Bank. The Community and War Fund committee wish to express their thanks to the Amherst people for their fine cooperation In the success of the drive and they especially thank the volunteer workers.Officers of the board are Rev. C. E. Schmidt, president; J. J. Smythe, vice-president; F. J. Berger, financial secretary and secretary; Hugh Haynes, treasurer. Conrad Zilch was chairman of the drive and F. R. Powers, vice-chairman. Members of the board are Roy Harr, Ludwig Thomas, W. G. Nord, George H. Frank and August Nabakowski. Former Amherstite In Real War Work Amherst still has a very clear theiss who recently left here to be superintendent of carpentry at the Delta Shin Yards in New Orleans, La. We chanced to see an article concerning him in the "Delta Atlas" the shipyards' monthly magazine. The Delta people think highly of the former Amherst man and wrote this article: "Not very many of our em ployees know Mr. Wallace Schul-theiss. You might notice him on the morning of a launching, but only then because he blows a whistle on the little stand amidships. This is only the culmination of all he does. He is responsible for setting up the keel blocks; keeping the hull in perfect line; plumbing the bulkheads, and, in fact, keeping a bunch of sections in line to make a complete ship. After this he builds the launchways, lifts the 2500 tons up on the sliding ways; and removes the cribbings and keel blocks. Then the ship is ready for launching. This is when you see and hear him blowing the whistle, which means that his men are tightening up on the wedges that give the ship her final lift on the launching ways. When this is all completed, he gives the final signal to drive out the pins in the wedge blocks and cut the lines which are at this time the only thing holding the ship. "Mr. Schultheiss or Wallace, as we call him makes very little fuss about all this and this Is why very few know about him. Every thing works like clock work and he ls the man to whom the credit for our launching is due. He also believes in the Delta motto of "DEEDS NOT WORDS." Schultheiss and his son Doug las left Amherst over a year ago to work in New Orleans. They were transferred from the American Ship Yards of Lorain. Earl Sabiers Home, Honored At Dinner Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sabiers, West-st, entertained at dinner Sunday in honor of their son Earl, who is home on a ten-day leave from his duties with the martlme service. Young Sabiers has completed his basic training at Hoffman Island, New York. Guests at the dinner were Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sabiers of Oberlin, Mr. and Mrs. George Reger, Mrs. Stacy Warner and son, Mr. and Mrs. Lou Reger of Lorain, and Mrs. Emma Leidheiser ofVermilion. .7

Amherst News- I HE VOL. XXIV, NUMBER 48 AMHERST, OHIO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1942 SANDSTONE CENTER OF THE WORLD .1 1MES ,) IS 0 TV Local Boys Tough Too, Said Soldier Pvt. Noble Bierman found the boys back home just as tough as they ever were when he was home on weekend pass three weeks ago. The Sunday afternoon he got into a football game with his friends and when he got back to camp the next day he had to go into the hospital for a ten-day rest. The fellows got the best of him more or less. Pvt. Bierman enlisted in the army last June and signed up with the Coastal Artillery unit. He is still in the coastal artillery but is doing radio work. H e has received his schooling at Washington, D, C, and is expecting a trans fer any day now. He is also in line for a promo tion to corporal technician. Since being in Washington he has been fortunate in being able to have five weekend passes. His training has consisted mostly of all book work and lectures since he has been in the army. His first camp was Fort Ben jamin Harrison, from there he was transferred to Fort Eustis and then on to Washington. At Washington the fellows are liv ing in a hotel where they pay $3 a week for rent aniMhey fut t restaurants. About a month ago Pvt. Bierman and his roommates were flooded out of their living quarters which was formerly oc cupied by a plumber's shop. The flood hit the place and the sold iers were forced out. They pre fer the hotel of their old habitat. The Amherst lad said the soldiers in Washington don't relish the idea of saluting the WAACS and WAVES. Everytime they see them coining down the street the soldiers duck into the nearest store in order to avoid saluting them. Pvt. Bierman enjoys reading the soldier's news in the paper, he wrote home. When he receives his transfer his new address will appear in the paper. Fort Riley Boys Have Party Fun m Monday's mail brought the editor a letter from Hugh McGarvey, former reporter of the Amherst News-Times. Hugh's in the army now stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas and his letter tells us that army life with him is okay. You will enjoy his letter so here it is: "Hello George: "Finally found time to drop you a few lines. Maybe it is for the better that the writing was postponed because I can pound this out on a typewriter now and you will be able to read it. "It seems good to be back at a typewriter again in the hurly-burly confusion of an office. The whole company is administered through the orderly room office so you can see we are right in the thick of everything. It is a lot like working on a newspaperin-so-far as every day being different.The days here are full they have to be in order to teach us as much as possible about army life in 11 weeks but occasionally there is a break and they are appreciated. After a particularly tough week when we fired for record on the rifle range, the company had a beer party. It started out right at supper time with a regular old fashioned dutch supper and following the meal, the piano was dragged into the mess hall and all the talent in the company was utilized to fill out program. iV,' The Party r ? ' "Our only really big social af fair tlwugh,, was held, jait Bun day. Then the company was per mltted to Invite 25 girls to Sun A u J On land the sea and in the air Amherst Soldiers and Sailors are FigMisag for Liberty We wish our readers to know that in the future we will print no more addresses of soldiers or sailors abroad. Persons wanting addresses of these service men who are abroad may obtain those that we have by coming to the office. They will not be given over the phone. Government censorship has ruled this. day dinner. The girls were cho sen by the USO clubs in surrounding towns. It is too bad you weren't here with your camera, George, for you sure would have had a field day. "Now out of 250 soldiers, you wouldn't think it would be hard to find 25 to escort these girls to dinner, would you? No one else did either, in fact the officers were afraid it would be the other way around so they decided that the fellows who had the 25 highest scores on the range would be rewarded. "But it so happened that several of the fellows were in the older age group, were happily married, didn't dance or had some other excuse. The charge of quarters almost had to threaten some of the boys before he got his list complete. Then they started to get nervous. Some of the boys ."'ere all dressed in their Sunday best for breakfast and just paced around all morning. (I still can't get up early they had to dump my bed over to get me up). Given Numbers "Here Is how it worked. we were all 'given" numbers'. As the girls were unloaded from the trucks, they were given numbers and taken to the day room where we were waiting. The corresponding numbers were then partners. It was really strange at first but it didn't take long for everyone to get acquainted. There was one set of lively twins that no one ever did keep identified very long. The girls ate dinner, chicken and all the trimmings in regular army, style and waited on them selves too. They really got a great kick out of it. Following the dinner, we joined with the other companies in the main recreation hall for dancing. There was also facilities for roller skat ing for those who wished to skate. Then you should have seen the fellows, who were pre- viously too bashful, come out of hiding. Dust Storm "A lot of the fellows took pic- tures and I am enclosing one to.of cereal (the glass of milk had show you the twins. The only I to be used for the cereal too) for drawback to the whole day was;sixty cents. Kurth was happy that we had a Kansas dust storm, ; that he didn't have to stay too the wind being so strong at times that you couldn't walk against it. "Before I forget, George, I sure like" the column and stories about the boys in service every week. It is a swell way to keep track of them. Carl Einwachter is out here with me and we really pore over the News-Times every Saturday. Everybody back home has been swell about writing. Haven't had time to answer all of them and also haven't written to everyone I promised but wish you would tell them that It won't be too long before I get more time. We have only four more , fee, Ark. "It seems great to be weeks of the basic training period home even though army life is left. great," said Sgt. Thomas. He will "Well, George, will sign off return to camp Nov. 29. now as it is almost time for bed-1 Expected home soon are Corp. check. Hope to see you soon. ; Conrad Einwachter of Camp HUGH" Bowie, Texas and Pvt. Ralph Hugh's address is Pvt. Hugh J. 1 Haas of Mississippi. Corp. Ein-McGarvey, Co. 'B, 28th Trg. Bn., ' wachter is expected home Friday M.P.R.T.C., Fort Riley, Kansas, I of this week. Barracks 2602. Pvt. Harold R. Telzerow has been transferred from New Jersey to Colorado. His change of address ls: Pvt. Harold R. Telzerow, 771 SP, Buckley Field, Col. Pvt. Stanley Gambash was home from Fort Leonard Wood for several days last week, n John, H. Lenz has a change of address. He was transferred to the. Eyerglades Hgtql, Room ,1308, Miami, Florida where he is attending one of the navy schools. Was Inducted On Birthday The only thing he doesn't get I enough of in the army is choco- I late cake and cream, pies, Pvt. pies, Norman Kurth told us last week when he was home on a 72-hour leave. So to make up for it while he was home he had all the cake he could eat and his mother gnd aunts saw to it that his pie was ready for him whenever he wanted it. ' i Pvt. Kurth has been in the army for two months now having been inducted on his 21st birthday. He is receiving his basic training at Atlantic City, N. J. in the air corps division of the army. His biggest thrill since being in the army came when he was able to handle the machine gun. "I've often won- ; dered how one of those things worked after seeing so many in I motion pictures, now I know," j said the Amherst boy. We asked ' him if he got a kick out of handling the good old army rifle, he said, "There were plenty of us who got the "kick" out of them especially if we didn't hold them just right against our shoulders." Living conditions for the boys up in New Jersey are fine. The fellows are staying in a hotel. All the hotels in Atlantic have i bethi turned over for army use. Three to seven boys stay In a room. A chest of drawers for clothing is in each room and when seven fellows are in one room they have quite a time trying to keep their clothing all in one chest. That's their worst trouble that and washing. "After two months of it, I still don't have it down pat," said Pvt. Kurth. There were quite a few Amherst fellows at New Jersey when Kurth left. He had met up with Frank Szabados, Harold Telze-row, Paul Meitzke, John Nagy, Henry Miller and Glenn Slumska. Several of these boys have been transferred since that time. Kurth, too, expected a transfer on his return. His trip to and from the camp was made by train and learned that expenses for soldiers on the train are high. The hometown lad and another fellow from Cleveland had breakfast, fruit iuiee one 8lass o milk and a dish lon8 on the train. I He left town a week ago Tues- i aay tor wew Jersey. He nas been j transferred since then to South j Dakota, It was learned today. His ! Present address is: Pvt. Norman Kurth, 803rd T. S. S. (sp), Sioux I Falls. s- D- ne ls the son of Mr. and Mrs Henry Kurth, Park-av. BRIEF NOTES ABOUT crj! niFRs Mr AimRS Staff Sgt. Halph Thomas arrived home last week for a ten-day furlough from Camp Chaf- Pvt. George Jaeger and Pvt. Robert Kricg were home for a few days recently. Pvt. Clarence Kurth has been confined in the Station Hospital, Fort Jackson, S. C. for the past 4 weeks. His address is 134th Station Hospital, Ward 39. Pvt. Edward Morrison was home from New Jersey over the weekend. I ' ft- More Service : Men Newt mi W on page 4 Local Pictures Limited By WPA I ,. - u , . , . ,, I The use of photographs in the I News-Times will need to be cut i the future unless the War Production Board relents in its order limiting the amount of film ;hat can be bought. October 1st manufacturers were 1 limited to 50 percent of film sold. and lately all manufactur- trs' stocks were comPletelv fr- en' , "f t this rpcrrirnun uiiiiiu riiiiiiiniP iiniii ,otu uru u fi i December 18th. Whether film would be released then, or would ; be further restricted, could not : . ...v.. De learned. , Before a newspaper photograph i can De maae iwo pieces oi mm i names are t0 be added soon which an, Ueralcl Van Keuren and Ed-are necessary. The first piece is j wjl, bring tne tolai to 325. ward Summerlee were made sec-used to take the original photo- j Approximately 223 of these ond lieutenants, Robert Flech-graph. This picture is made in ! are indUctees and the re- ner' staI sergeant, Bob McCann, the same manner as an ordinary snapshot. After the pnotograph is made the second piece of film is necessary. That is used in making the second, or "process" negative. Since both the ordinary film and the "process" film is frozen the order effects not only those taking pictures, but also engravers who cannot make the news paper cuts without "process" film. j At present The News-Times has a very limited stock of each type 0f fnm on hand. Until the WPA permits the purchase of more the number of local pictures which we will be able to use must be restricted, and finally eliminated altogether unless new supplies ! can be secured. Additional Gas Heaters Barred a ,nf u7 , t. WoJ army captain and doctor,-Capt. ! The first nurses to join the ser-A recent ruling of the War ' a navv lieuten- vice left town in October and Production Board prohibiting the j Sphopffm n navv they are now' members of the connection of radiant heaters,; rlrnnlntinif honlnrB nnH nthnr anc I circulating heaters, and other gas) fired supplemental h e a 1 1 n g 1 equipment to the gas lines after November 30 was announced today by Mr. C. F. Bronson, dis trict manager of The Ohio Fuel: Gas Company. 1 For some months, the installa- tion of gas fired central heating I plants has been prohibited as well as the installation of small hcaters required to furnish a majority of the heating used in a residence or business location. The new order offers further restrictions on small space heaters, becoming effective on and after November 30. The Company points out that the order places responsibility for adhering to the ruling upon the customer using the gas, the party connecting the appliance to the gas lines and the utility which renders the gas service. One or all of those involved in a violation are subject to the penalties provided by law. Interpreting the War Production Board's most recent order on these changes, the following are the limitations on connecting supplemental gas heating appliances to the Company's lines on and after November 30: The new limitations do not affect the use of gas fired equipment already connected to the lines as long as it remains Installed at the same address. No additional gas-fired space heating equipment such as radiant heaters, conversion burners, etc. may be connected to the lines. This includes new or used equipment which may be bought or ls then owned but not connected.No gas fired space heating equipment may be connected at a new address even though it was connected at an old address and still ls In possession of the same owner. Replacements of gas-fired heating equipment with other gas fir ed heating equipment are per mitted only when equipment ls of the same type, at the same address and that the new Installation is of the same or less capacity as the equipment replaced. Owners of rental property who own gas-fired space heaters connected to the gas lines on the property may permit new ten-nanta to use the equipment as part, of the rented property. If the cental, property;, J, not so quipped, the new tennant Is not I permitted to connect his gas fired I space beaters. Reviewing Amherst's Servicemen In World War II, Land, Air, And Sea Amherst is well represented throughout the world and we're not kidding. We mean of course that we have soldiers, sailors and marines scattered wide in the present conflict. To our knowledge we have men in the Solomon area, others in Ireland, Eng land, Hawaii, India, Alaska and stm 'other po'ints wnich are only esUmated rri i ...u: ,1 u i a n . .n lcu wmii:, anu uiue nun- erected on the townhaU ,awn o Amherst L . . . ... , luwnsuip iiiuii wiiu uie atuvmg 111 ,,. . , TT , 4u4 i- , . x i wiHiu war ii unu nidi iisl la iiul yet compiete. At least ten more iiB nlimhPr of mpn are en- listees. Many of the enlistees staff sergeant and Ed Van Keur-have been in the service since be- en a sergeant. We might mention fore war was declared. that lhe last three bys are not The navy seems to be the choice vet 21 vears old- Ry Hoffner of the majority of the enlisted and Don Dalcy are the latest men accounted for. Over half of Amherstites to leave town for the that number is in the navy. The air corPs- next choice is the air corps. Last since the Selective Service be-January Amherst had its first re- 8an in October, 1940, 223 fellows prcsentatives in the U. S. Marines ' have been inducted from Am-with Leo Redman and Adam hst township. Approximately Drozdowski enlisting. Since then ; 107 f this number are from the the total of local marines has city limits. swelled to 15. William Raab is I In the first group to go were the latest local boy to sign up . Clarence Blackford, Joe Smith, with that outfit. Herbert Schneider, Walter Paukst, SEVERAL OFFICERS ! Louis Hyster, Howard Franks, Amherst has a right to be ' Fred Lucas, and William Franks. proud of her boys in the armed , forces. They have all gone ahead and a number of them have be- come leaders in the various ! branches of the service. Scan- 1 !- .i i:t t i..i Ulllg uvui uiu iiau ui tuiui iui.11 --a who are playing an active part in ; now an aviation cadet in Cali-the war we find that we have a fomia. fhnnlnin Ppu H H Mnvuupll Bn ! TWO NURSES Ted Wiseman Brmv OOClOr, Lil. ICQ Wiseman, army, lieutenant. Lt. Arthur Thomas, 1 and air corps lieutenants, Lts. ! Robert and Jed Hall and Robert III I? II.WfM 1111 3. IJ 11UIIUU r 1 i r UlCU At "1 1 CarS Sunday afternoon funeral scr- vices were held for Mrs. Ella E. iHutton, a life-long resident of Amherst, who died Friday night, Mrs. Hutton, who was 91 years old, died at the home of her son, William Hutton, 160 Harris-st. She was born on the North Ridge-rd, Amherst-twp where she lived all of her life except the past year and a half. She left one son, five grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren, a nephew, E. E. Foster and a niece, Mrs. Jack Barkley, both of Amherst. Rev. F. E. Eastman of the Wakeman Congregational church officiated at the service and burial was held in Crownhill cemetery in charge of the Conrad Zilch funeral home. School Teacher Joins WAAC's The first woman from Amherst township to join the Woman's Auxliary Corps is Mrs. Frances E. Hammct of South Amherst. Mrs. Hammet has resigned her position as teacher in the South Amherst high school to join the WAACS. Her application for enlistment has already been accepted by the Women's Corps and she expects to begin active ser vice about December 1. Her resignation at South Amherst will be effective Nov. 25. She is teaching English, history and girls' physical education and Is also director of the dramatic club. This is her first year on the South Amherst facul ty. She taught at Clearview before her marriage and also Avon during the second semester of last year. Nelson Howe of Henrietta has been appointed to fill her vacancy. He has had several years of teaching experience and during the last semester of the 1941 school year he taught at Avon. . Howe was formerly employed in a Cleveland store where he was engaged In commercial work. At his new position he will teach science and mathematics. ' Roinhardt; Gerald Van Keuren and Edward Summerlee who are 2nd lieutenants in the army air corps. Another Amherst doctor, 2nd Lt. R. J. Mulford will begin duty in another week in the in- fantry. Ensign Irvin Maxwell is an athletic instructor at Corpus Christi, Texas and then there are I a group of Amherst men who are sergeants, corporals and going on down to buck privates and ap- nrnni pp spampn an nninu rnnir "o share to bring the war to an end 0ff hand we can say that the nip rnrn v hppn a,prt n a 1 - . rprlain pvlpnf Rinnp thp Hnll brothers have become lieuten- technical sergeant, Don Franklin, These bys le" January 31, 1941 the second call which took 30 from the Oberlin District. Nick Radosevich was Amherst's first draft volunteer. He left shortlv after the registration. He Army-Nurses Corps. 2nd Lieu ' -'nanls ermaine i.aniu ana .ar- essa Meitzke are both stationed at the stalion Hospital, Camp Campbell, Kentucky. They are I finding army life much to their liking. 1 Subtracting 315 young fellows from the total number of young men residents of town a year or so ago solves the problem of why the town is bare. Soldiers and sailors home on furlough com ment on that fact as soon as they arrive home. They wonder what has happened to the town, it is so bare. And those few who are left are waiting day by day for their numbers to come up. The Oberlin Draft Board re cently announced that the 18 and 19 year old group have received classifications and will be called for physical examinations shortly. That will mean the younger fellows will be going within a month or two. At the present the 3-A men are being reclassified into 1-A. Several married men have been called for their first physical in Oberlin. Should General Hershey's state ment of a month or so be con firmed that no more deferments will be issued to war workers the 3-A men may not have to leave before all single fellows are called. Union Service At Methodist Church The annual community union Thanksgiving service will be held Wednesday evening at 7:30 in the Methodist church. Members of the Congregational, First Evangelical, Evangelical-Reformed and Methodist will combine their Thanksgiving worship at this time. All other people are welcome to attend. Rev. C. C. Vandersall of the First Evangelical church will preach the sermon and his topic ls entitled, "Christian Thanksgiving." Rev. Harold Dlehl will conduct the . service and a sextet from Amherst high school will offer several selections.A community union service will also be held in South Am herst at , the Congregational church the same time. Rev. C E. Schmidt and Rev. E. J. San derson will conduct this service. A speaker from the Oberlin school of Theology will address the South Amherst group. Community, War Fund Drive Over Goal By $732.80 Amherst's Community and War Fund drive went over the top in its recent drive by $732.80 this year as reported by F. J. Berger, financial secretary and secretary of the board. $3732.80 has been collected so far and there are still a few unpaid pledges to be collected. The board asks that these pledges be taken care of as soon as possible. Amherst set its goal this year as $3,000. A house to house canvass by volunteer workers was successful in contacting the majority of residents. Should there be any person in town who was not contacted and who would care to contribute to this worthy cause he may yet do so by leaving his contribution at the Lorain-co Bank. The Community and War Fund committee wish to express their thanks to the Amherst people for their fine cooperation In the success of the drive and they especially thank the volunteer workers.Officers of the board are Rev. C. E. Schmidt, president; J. J. Smythe, vice-president; F. J. Berger, financial secretary and secretary; Hugh Haynes, treasurer. Conrad Zilch was chairman of the drive and F. R. Powers, vice-chairman. Members of the board are Roy Harr, Ludwig Thomas, W. G. Nord, George H. Frank and August Nabakowski. Former Amherstite In Real War Work Amherst still has a very clear theiss who recently left here to be superintendent of carpentry at the Delta Shin Yards in New Orleans, La. We chanced to see an article concerning him in the "Delta Atlas" the shipyards' monthly magazine. The Delta people think highly of the former Amherst man and wrote this article: "Not very many of our em ployees know Mr. Wallace Schul-theiss. You might notice him on the morning of a launching, but only then because he blows a whistle on the little stand amidships. This is only the culmination of all he does. He is responsible for setting up the keel blocks; keeping the hull in perfect line; plumbing the bulkheads, and, in fact, keeping a bunch of sections in line to make a complete ship. After this he builds the launchways, lifts the 2500 tons up on the sliding ways; and removes the cribbings and keel blocks. Then the ship is ready for launching. This is when you see and hear him blowing the whistle, which means that his men are tightening up on the wedges that give the ship her final lift on the launching ways. When this is all completed, he gives the final signal to drive out the pins in the wedge blocks and cut the lines which are at this time the only thing holding the ship. "Mr. Schultheiss or Wallace, as we call him makes very little fuss about all this and this Is why very few know about him. Every thing works like clock work and he ls the man to whom the credit for our launching is due. He also believes in the Delta motto of "DEEDS NOT WORDS." Schultheiss and his son Doug las left Amherst over a year ago to work in New Orleans. They were transferred from the American Ship Yards of Lorain. Earl Sabiers Home, Honored At Dinner Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sabiers, West-st, entertained at dinner Sunday in honor of their son Earl, who is home on a ten-day leave from his duties with the martlme service. Young Sabiers has completed his basic training at Hoffman Island, New York. Guests at the dinner were Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sabiers of Oberlin, Mr. and Mrs. George Reger, Mrs. Stacy Warner and son, Mr. and Mrs. Lou Reger of Lorain, and Mrs. Emma Leidheiser ofVermilion. .7